The exhibition Civil War @ Rochdale, held at Rochdale City Art Gallery, 17thMay–29thJune, 2003, was curated and designed by Peter Seddon with the assistance of gallery curator/director Penny Thompson. It placed clusters of digital prints, gouaches, and found papers in spaces between 19th century Victorian paintings of English Civil War subjects. The paintings were either from the Rochdale collection or loaned from galleries in the North of England or the Midlands. The repeating wall text they had tongues like angels but cloven feet is from a remark made by Cromwell about fanatical elements in his New Model Army. The exhibition resulted from extensive research about the British Civil Wars of the 17th century, undertaken during a two-year period (2001-3) of mentoring and reappraisal of my practice with Andrew Wheatley, a London curator and gallerist. A book of essays, diaries and conversations based on that experience and on research undertaken for the exhibition, was also produced. (see selected publications tab above.)